“The terrible danger of our time consists in the fact that ours is a cut-flower civilization. Beautiful as cut flowers may be, and much as we may use our ingenuity to keep them looking fresh for a while, they will eventually die, and they die because they are severed from their sustaining roots. We are trying to maintain the dignity of the individual apart from the deep faith that every man is made in God's image and is therefore precious in God's eyes.” ChristianityDignityRoots Book:The Predicament of Modern Man Source: The Predicament of Modern Man
“The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.” WorldChristianitySeeingHearingShocked Author:D. Elton Trueblood
“No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.” ChristianThreeChristianityIntellectualAspectDevotionRationalityInner LifeIntellectual Life Author:D. Elton Trueblood